Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 8:01 am, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> This is really bad.  It gives too much fuel to MS to spread more fud.  I
> have been watching the discussion of the FACTORY list.  The biggest
> problem I see with Linux is drivers and getting support for them from
> commecial enterprises.  I am afraid that this aids manufactures of devices
> to choose not to support Linux.  Look at ATI and nVidia, ....   We have a
> hard time getting people to provide drivers for Linux as it is now.  This
> has aided some driver manufactorers to say why support Linux.  I had this
> happen this week.  A client that has been on SUSE Linux since 9.0 and was
> considering upgrading to SLES and newer version of Linux had the hardware
> people tell him they would not be supporting Linux in the future.  He
> called all worked up about my convincing him to go with Linux and now he
> is not going to be able to use it because of this issue.  He is now
> looking for a MS consultant and going to be moving from Linux.  This was
> really bad timing for me.

It's bad timing for everyone, and is pure STUPIDITY!! Those knuckleheads who 
work on the kernel had better get a reality check and get it QUICKLY!!

Fred

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